I’m just so excited I had to share! I’m 28, Fiance is 29 and we’ve been together 5 years! When I finished university at 22, I briefly moved home, then moved in with 4 other girls for a year. Then moved to a new apartment with my best friend for a year.

Best friend decides to move in with bf and my Fiance wasn’t ready to live together yet. I move home with the parents 🙁

After about a year of living there, Fiance decided to go back to school at a college campus that was 1.5 hours away from me! So we got a place, I tried to find work and basically just lived there on weekends.

A year later Fiance gets a 12 month internship closer to me so we move to a basement apartment, live there for a year, then I move back home to my parents and he moves back for his last year of school.

Well, he finished school in April, started a new job in July, and we finally found an apartment we both agreed on tonight!!!!

It’s a 2 bedroom on the second floor of an old century home and one of my long time girlfriends and her boyfriend live in the apartment nextdoor! It’s spacious, 860 a month plus hydro and we obviously have to get our own internet…. For where we live, that’s a steal. I’m just SO SO SO excited, it’s above ground! My bedroom has been in a basement in every single place I’ve lived since I left university!!!!

And this is where we’ll live when we get married next year, and until we can afford a house! I’m back to school this year just for a one year post grad program so money is tight.. we were lucky to grab this place! Can’t wait!!!! Just wanted to share my excitement!!!!!!

@wisher558: Ohhh it feels so good! I hope you get to write yours soon!!! It’s my parents we’re living with at least, but they ask us EVERY DAY if we’ve found a place yet, if I’ve found part time work for school yet, etc etc…. I’ve lived her way too long and NEED OUT! I’m just trying not to stress about the financial part…telling myself I’ll have work soon and OSAP loan in the mean time… and Fiance should be able to cover it mostly until I find some work!

@MrsPhilly: they don’t ask because they know we can’t. I’m only here on a visitor’s visa and can’t work. But SO is supposed to be applying for a job in a city 45 minutes away that is cheaper so I hope very very soon!

@wisher558: ah I see.. When you get married will you be able to work? That must be frustrating. I am just a supply teacher and in the summers I usually try and work as much as I can, but this year Fiance was going on interviews in cities hours away from here so I didn’t bother job hunting bc I didn’t know where we’d end up. So I’ve been unemployed all summer and I think I’ve felt pretty down on myself…. It’s like they think I just want to be lazy and do nothing.. but I’ve put out resumes and taken steps for finding work ever since Fiance started his new job.

@MrsPhilly: I’m in Canada actually. Originally from the states. We had a civil ceremony last November and I’m waiting for all of the immigration paperwork to go thru. It could take up to another year so I’m hoping it doesn’t!! I feel so useless not being able to work. I watch the neighbor’s dog 1-3 times a week which is nice for spending money. I usually get shampoo and stuff tho. I have money to pay my bills but don’t like to use it for a lot of other stuff.

SO and I were long distance for 3 years and we finally had had enough. I was supposed to move to new york but I ended up just moving here.

@wisher558: So you’re in Mississauga then? My Fiance lived there for the first 2 years we were together. I used to drive down there all the time, he was just renting a room in a lady’s house then. How do you like it there? Pretty different from Tennessee?

I’m actually from Wisconsin but we’re doing our big ceremony in Tennessee. Its similar but different. A lot bigger than what I grew up in. the town I grew up in is 7, 200 people. Mississauga is 100 times bigger. Its lonely though because I don’t really know anyone 🙁